[StephenA]

When I was having the car looked at on Friday the engineer said that he "expected an engine with 90K on it to smoke a bit". I replied that my old 9000 with 120K on it never smoked once in 5 years and I did not expect a Saab engine to be smokey at 90K.. My old Cavalier got to about 100K and didn't burn oil so I dont expect my saab to do it.

Was I being too critical of him? should we expect saabs to start smoking at 90K?

Steve

 

[cdcarlsson]

I think you are spot on and your 'engineer' is living in the dim and distant past....

 

[mutungi]

Saabs only smoke when the head gasket or the turbo is failing....otherwise not!

 

[9000CS23T]

My car is on 196k and doesn't smoke and the performance is still there, I wouldn't expect any modern car to smoke at 90k now. We see a lot of cars well over 100k and none of them have been smokers.

Neil